Preverbal infants' sensitivity to synaesthetic cross-modality correspondences

Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-25

  Walker, Peter ^a   Gavin Bremner, J ^a   Mason, Uschi ^a   Spring, Jo ^a   Mattock, Karen ^a   Slater, Alan ^b   Johnson, Scott P ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross modal perception; Infant perception; Preferential looking; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77951259598     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797609354734     Document Type: Article

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